School Matters – Polish Inclusion
This listening exercise only covers the first 5 minutes of this video. The opening few seconds may be noisy, so be ready to adjust the volume setting!
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1 What does the first woman who speaks say, particularly about the two most recent years?
2 What was the surprise that the man mentions experiencing in September 2005?
3 What verb is used here meaning ‘increased from’ or ‘risen from’?
4 What has the arrival of these students brought as far as the next teacher interviewed is concerned?
5 Since the expansion of the European Union there has a lot debate about immigration. What phrase describes the nature of this debate?
6 What phrase is used meaning ‘There has been a lot of discussion about’ or ‘there has been a lot of emphasis on’?
7 How is Slough described?
8 How many new arrivals there (in Slough) are Polish?
9 Sara Selleck manages a unit called Connect. How is Connect described?
10 For whom has it been set up?
11 Sara Selleck says the unit is unique -what other phrase does she use of it?
12 What is said of the ratio of Poles to other nationalities?
13 What is the extent of the range of students at the unit?
14 What phrase does she use to say the combination is successful?
15 What phrase does Sara Selleck use that suggests she has not been trained as a specialist in this area?
16 How does she express the idea that the teachers are committed to individualised learning?
17 What name is given to the power supply?
18 How will learning certain words help the student concerned when he takes his exam paper?
19 How long has Mateusz been at the unit?
20 How has he found learning English?
21 When does Sara Selleck say students are put into lessons?
22 Students at the unit not being put into ‘mainstream English’ classes yet. Why not?
Because mainstream English classes would be virtually impossible for them.
23 What phrase is used meaning they must be ‘competent’ in a skill?
24 What two processes take place at the Beechwood school’s new assessment centre?
1) All new pupils are assessed by the LEA (= local education authority) and 2) all pupils placed at Beechwood can be monitored continually.
25 What was difficult for teachers before the existence of the assessment centre?